 | | Report (issue) | | fragrant white pandemonium of blossoms—Springtime in Arizona is great time to be here, considering the weather...example there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern...little about— New digging for wulfenite at the Red Cloud Terry Szenics wrote in 1975 that “…in perfection...aesthetic appeal, most collectors agree that Red Cloud wulfenite has no equal”—and this judgment prevails...wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over at the Red Cloud,” in the July-August |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [University of Cambridge] at 13:45 04 June 2016 MINE Figure 1 (above left). Looking north along open...Gilbert, Arizona 85299 Downloaded by [University of Cambridge] at 13:45 04 June 2016 T he Red Cloud mine...world's classic mineral localities. Ever since mining began there in the 1870s, its wulfenite has been...of mining for silver. Over the past century, however, a lot of effort has been put into this mine by...collector Ed Over proved what the Cloud was capable of in 1938. Today, the Red Cloud is finally in the hands of |  | | Journal (issue) | | May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon...Shannon Famous mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona...................................G. M. Edson Famous mineral localities: Tiger, Arizona ................... by R. A. Bideaux 135 141...The Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 Departments Notes from the Editor .. What’s...16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jersey 08003 ticularly in those specimens of willemite that are formed late as microcrystals in vugs... Under long-wave ultraviolet radiation these willemite specimens may also fluoresce orange or pink-orange...exception is found in the Tiger willemite, described below. Pinal County Copyright held by the author...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine (Tiger) WILLEMITE Part II The Fluorescent Willemite of Arizona A R I Z O N A I...spotted at a distance by the surface coloration. The red color of oxidized iron or the blue stain of copper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A 1985 Report: Arizona's Red Cloud Mine 54 ROCKS AND MINERALS R A Y M O N D W. G R A N T Mesa Community...Southern Avenue Mesa, Arizona 85202 T H E R E D C L O U D M I N E in L a Paz County, Arizona, is considered...that L a Paz is a new county, resulting from the recent division of Yuma County. Red Cloud wulfenite...the Red Cloud mine, making occasional finds of good specimens. However, five years ago the mine was closed... The price of silver was rising, and the mine was reopened at that time to mine silver. During the past |  | | Journal (issue) | | January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below)...(below) Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This |  | | Book (edition) | | MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals-Arizona. I. Anthony, John W (John Williams), 1920-. QE375...HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a |  | | Book (edition) | | MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS...CALLAHAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON f -- The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona...arizona.edu © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations |  | | Catalog/List | | WULFENITE & ASSOC/A TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations which...ROWLEYWULFENITE &ASSOCIATIONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear golden wulfenite crystals...30.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens with...WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red crystal inch...mounted in 1 1/4 79 WULFENITE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizo _na: Transparent bright yellow |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogical Record Inc., 7413 N. Mowry Place Tucson, Arizona 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Associate...reprints, book sales, shows) P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 602-297-6709 Subscriptions • Individuals...second class postage (USPS-887-700) Paid at Tucson, Arizona, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address...Madera County, C alifornia............................. 127 by T. Szenics The El Dragon mine, Potosi...Lehrberger & G. Schnorrer-Kohler Arizona's Silver mining district ...................................... | | | Book (edition) | | OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu WILLEMITE Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto, Namibia M ineral nomenclature...silicate willemite, which has a great back-story, particularly if you are a history buff. Willemite was described...Altenburg, near Moresnet, Belgium, to describe willemite, he named the mineral for the king of the Kingdom...Neutral Moresnet, from which the first samples of willemite originated. At the time of this partition, Lévy...Lévy was teaching in Belgium and named willemite to honor the leader of his host country, the Kingdom of |  | | Journal (issue) | | 50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ❖ Volume 51 Number 1 ❖ $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877–1940 .................... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona .................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | although it also occurs in various shades of red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, and brown or as...pyromorphite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, wulfenite, willemite, vanadinite, descloizite, caledonite, and others...Preble Hill mine near Garland, Maine; the old lead mine near Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Sterling Hill, New Jersey; and the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, and the well-known Wheatley and nearby...nearby mines, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania (Slot0 1989). In the western United States. where |  | | Journal (issue) | | RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Certificate (only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was |  | | Report (issue) | | Willemite Zn2 SiO4 ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group:...to opaque. Color: Colorless to white, gray, °esh-red, dark brown, honey-yellow, apple-green, blue; colorless...73.04 99.74 100.00 (1{2) Franklin, New Jersey, USA. (3) Zn 2 SiO4 : Occurrence: Of secondary origin...glaucochroite, leucophoenicite (Franklin, New Jersey, USA); malachite, mimetite, rosasite, duftite, cerussite...Namibia. From Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia. In the USA, large crystals at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite |  | | Catalog/List | | STIBNITE: Hunan Province, China: 1-2 inch single silver crystals and small clusters from this world renown...last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...DENDRITIC WIRESIL VER Elure Mine, Cobar, NWS, Australia; Fine crystalline wire silver with dendritic growths |  | | Journal (issue) | | ornacite, Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur...offered me a modest lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...years ago I collected at the site of the Big Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing...and cuprite, Cu2O. Mining of the ore body took about three years. Open pit mining was followed by a leaching |  | | Catalog/List | | recenUy acquired a huge old collection from an Arizona dealer/collector who was selling out due to age...fine quallty materlal wlth approxlmately 80% from Arizona localilies. This dealer had contacts with numerous...numerous miners at many of the famous mines In Arizona, and compiled this huge hoard betwecn 1960 and 1990...other ncw material from sources othcr than thc Arizona coilection. Due to the tremendous amount of new...THE FOSTER COLLECT/ON: RED CLOUD WULFENITE: Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona: The best wulfenite locallty |  | | Catalog/List | | with crystals in the 1-2 mm range richly coating red-brown matrix. Total specimen size will be 2x2 to...AURICHALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: Exceptional baby blue to deep blue...00 each AURICHALCITE - 79 MINE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona: Delicate radiating acicular... AZURITE - MORENCI MINE Morenci Mine, Clifton-Morenci District, Greenlee County, Arizona: Excellent specimens...supply. CALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: AWESOME! Exquisite masses of fine |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ! RIZONA~VI CONTENTS Arizona-VI (Introduction) ............. ... ................ 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ............. .. ........ 484 W. E. Wilson The Arizona Silver Belt; Silver King to McMillenville .................... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ............................. ......531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .. .. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wulfenite’s deep, rich colors can be as warm as the Arizona climate in which it occurs so prolifically. RICHARD...RICHARD A. BIDEAUX 710 W. Bangalor Drive Or0 Valley, Arizona 85737 WULFENITE HAS BEEN A FAVORITE of mineral...specimens, not only to the mine, but also often to the particular place in the mine and even to the period...example, more than 150 localities are on record for Arizona alone (Anthony, Williams, and Bideaux, 1977; Wilt...is often yellow through orange, and more rarely red. It has also been recorded as green, blue, colorless |  | | Journal (issue) | | Record, lnc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping; Hardcover:...mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many...brochures touting "mountains füll of rich gold and silver ores, sulphurets, carbonates, chJorides and rich...booming silver-rush town ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens |
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Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA